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Business continuity starts with portability

Business continuity planning has a quiet assumption built into most of it: that the infrastructure the plan runs on will cooperate. Backup systems will be accessible. Recovery procedures will work as documented. The provider whose services underpin the critical path will be available, or at least recoverable within the window the plan specifies. That assumption is tested every time a major provider has an outage, a regional failure, or a service disruption that cascades across dependent workloads.

Executive Roundtable: Guardrails for the Autonomous Era: Shipping Fast Without Breaking Things

Ask ten engineering leaders how far their organization has actually gotten with autonomous AI, and most will admit the same thing once the marketing language drops away: not nearly as far as it looks from the outside. That was the undercurrent of a roundtable Logz.io and Twingate hosted on July 22, 2026, bringing together VPs of engineering, CTOs, senior security directors, and several product leaders across different industries and company stages.

Meet Assistant Workspace: Full-page experience for Grafana Assistant

Introducing Assistant Workspace, a full-page surface for Grafana Assistant, built for the conversations that outgrow a sidebar. Dig into longer investigations, compare data side by side, and keep your train of thought in one place — then turn what you find into a dashboard without starting over. When a quick question becomes a real investigation, open it in Workspace and keep going. In this video, Ed Poole gives us a demo of how to use Workspace, including the use of canvases to see more information than before.

Shipped: Every cost recommendation now comes with the why and the how

A savings number tells you money is on the table, but it doesn’t tell you whether the finding holds up, what it’s based on, or what to do next. In that gap, recommendations pile up unactioned. When you’re staring at thousands of them, a title and a dollar figure isn’t enough to decide which are safe to act on.

Claude Opus 5 pricing: same sticker, different bill

Claude Opus 5 launched July 24, 2026 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, identical to Opus 4.8. It delivers near Claude Fable 5 performance at half Fable's price and is now the default model on Claude Max. New effort settings let teams trade capability for token savings, which means two teams on identical pricing can now run up very different bills. Finance teams, that last part is your problem. Anthropic has shipped a model that costs exactly what the old one cost.

OpenAI Codex pricing in 2026: plans, token costs, and usage limits

Codex pricing runs six tiers, from free to $200 a month, but the sticker price is not your real bill. OpenAI Codex pricing 2026 charges by the token, not the plan, a change that took effect in April. Plus is $20, Pro starts at $100, and everything past that depends on how many files you let the agent read. Most Codex pricing guides hand you a price list and call it done. That is like pricing a taxi ride by the door handle. The meter is what matters, and OpenAI put a real one on Codex this year.

Cloud Outage Response: AWS us-west-2 Lessons

Cloud outage response got another live fire drill on July 24, 2026, when AWS lost network connectivity between its us-west-2 region in Oregon and the Seattle metro. For most customers the pain lasted about 20 minutes, and a small set on AWS Direct Connect saw errors for roughly an hour and seventeen minutes. That is short as major cloud incidents go. What makes it worth your attention is not the duration.

Explore what's next in agentic operations: Introducing AI Week

Observability has traditionally been tacked on after your code hits production, but with agentic operations on the rise, that's no longer sustainable. Agents have dramatically increased the rate of change as they write more code, ship more changes, and operate more systems—all at a speed that compounds scale and complexity.

Smarter onboarding and planning with Grafana Assistant: How to ensure observability is baked in from the start

It's Monday afternoon and that feature you've been working on is mostly done. There's just one item still sitting untouched at the bottom of the ticket: "Add monitoring." You know you should. You also know the sprint ends tomorrow, nobody on the team is an observability expert, and figuring out what to measure—let alone how to write the PromQL for it—feels like a project all on its own. So it gets the same treatment it always does: "We'll add it when it breaks.".